Comment on Rethinking Seattle's Viaduct Highway

Description: The old adage, “My way, or the highway,” gets thrown around so much it’s become cliché. But for Seattle urban planner Cary Moon, it’s the cornerstone of her career. In 2004, Moon co-founded the People’s Waterfront Coalition, a grassroots group that supports sustainable alternatives to the city’s crumbling Alaskan Way Viaduct, a three-story highway that runs along Seattle’s west-side waterfront. The viaduct was badly damaged in a 2001 earthquake and has since sunk more than 5 inches. Its structural integrity is poor—yet 105,000 carbon-emitting cars still travel on it each day. All of which begs the question: would you like to be driving this roadway during the next earthquake?